Back at work, my job this month is to help new faculty members at Calvin College learn about Calvin’s history and mission, figuring out what it all means for their academic field and for their life in the Calvin … “vortex”? Is that too strong a word? Anyway, yesterday was Abraham Kuyper day, so Jim Bratt joined us to underscore some things from our readings and help us think through Kuyper-related issues. As The Twelve readers may know, one aspect of Kuyper’s genius was his ability to perceive even in the 1870s that the modern world would mean pluralist societies—like it or not—and that Christians were going to have to think up new ways to live in post-Christendom society.